The Huygens Aether (2nd Element) is Not the Cartesian Aether (5th Element)

April 13, 2022 8 minutes • 1507 words
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Before Newtonian Physics was created, the mainstream Physics was from Descartes who used a 5 Element paradigm, similar to:
- the Asian sciences of Hinduism and Taoism
- the Greek sciences Aristotle and Plato.
This model had 5 Elements, 4 of which are known by Physics as the Standard Model
Element | Physics Equivalent |
---|---|
Aether | Pseudo science |
Air | Spacetime |
Fire | Electromagnetism |
Water | Weak Force |
Earth or Mass | Strong Force |
This model is confusing for materialists because it makes the aether as the supreme Element and matter or mass as the lowest and most inferior.
The usual problem that they find is that the aether is arbitrary and irregular and cannot be clamped down as an exact science.
We define the aether as the substance of ideas, feelings, and the abstract minds that have those ideas and feelings. Operationally, this aether manifests as citta or mind-stuff in Vedic science.
This leads to the concept of Existence being a huge mind called Brahma. For those allergic to Hinduism, we replace it with a virtual supercomputer so that we are inside a virtual reality, similar to the Simulation Hypothesis.
- The aether serves as the foundation of the abstract sciences such as psychology, politics, economics, sociology (culture, trends, etc), philosophy, and so on.
- Matter serves as the foundation of the physical sciences such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc.
- The life sciences such as biology, medicine, and agriculture are in-between both.
This is why materialists see the random and arbitrary nature of quantum superposition as weird and spooky just because it always escapes their exact predictions and models.
And so matter-ialists like Newton refute Cartesian Physics, which is quantum-first and based on aethereal vortices (chakras to the Asian sciences), and replace it with his own matter-based Physics, which is regular and predictable.

Instead of mass being the lowest Element, Newtonian Physics made it the supreme Element.
Because it does not represent the truth of Nature, Newtonian mechanics started breaking down when electromagnetism was more observed.
- Light moved in waves instead of lines.
- Electrons did not move along Newtonian orbits.
- More importantly, the constant speed of light proved that space was not absolute.
All these findings are consistent with the 5 Elements model which has the aether as the top Element.
The Michelson Morley experiment that proved the constancy of light therefore actually proves the Cartesian Aether.
So why do physicists say that it debunked the aether?
The Huygens Ether, Frensel Ether, and Descartes Aether are Different
This is because the 19th century ether is the Fresnel ether and not the Cartesian one.
Fresnel’s ether is Descartes’ 2nd Element (space particles) mixed with the 3rd Element (matter particles). This is why it is variant just because light becomes variant when mixed with matter (such as when light passes through crystals).
This is in contrast to Huygen’s aether which is Descartes’ pure 2nd Element without any matter. At this point, none of them are actually the pure aether (5th Element) of Descartes
However, the Michelson-Morley experiment proved that the light was invariant. Therefore, it debunked the variant Fresnel ether.
To save the Fresnel ether theory, Lorentz created the concept of length contraction which allowed the shapes of material bodies to vary in accordance with the invariance of space.
The correctness of length contraction proves that:
- the 2nd Element (space particles) are invariant because there is no Void in Nature
- the 3rd Element (matter) is variant because it is different from space
Space as the 2nd Element
The whole problem began when Huygens wrongly renamed the pure 2nd Element as Ethereal matter. This created confusion with the pure aether as the 5th Element.

Superphysics Note
The 2nd Element, as empty space, propagates light, while the 3rd Element, as air or matter, propagates sound.

Space-Time is Not Material
In Cartesian Physics, the drag on light (1st Element) by the Fresnel aether is caused by matter (3rd Element), as glass and water.
It is not caused by spacetime (2nd Element).
Rather, the impact of the 2nd Element on light is to limit it to 300,000 kilometers per second.
All that Lorentz had to do what to remove the matter in the Michelson interferometer as to create a light beam that runs on pure space. This light beam would then go with space to reveal its properties.
This is exactly how the LIGO lasers in a vacuum prove gravitational waves and therefore the liquid nature of the 2nd Element, validating Descartes.
The LIGO lasers prove the liquid nature of the 2nd Element, validating Descartes
It is true that light travels through the medium of spacetime. But this spacetime is not material in nature. Rather it is energetic, having a wave-nature just as all other energies.
Behind this energy is its aethereal cause, as the 5th Element, which is inherently arbitrary and ever-changing because it is above space and time.
The same cause of quarks popping into existence is the same one for galaxies forming out of nowhere.
This principle is the foundation of:
- superposition in quantum mechanics
- multiverses where each universe has its own spacetime with different top speeds
This is why Cartesian Physics matches both the findings of Newtonian Physics and Quantum Mechanics. Therefore, to Descartes:
- the 2nd Element should be called “space-time” and not the “ether”
- the medium for physical sound is then the 3rd Element or matter, such as the physical air.
- light is invariant, not sped up nor slowed down by space-time
- light is slowed down by 3rd element or matter and is at maximum speed when free from matter.
- light is confined to its top or constant speed by the aetherspace which is a part of the 2nd Element
The Scammer Einstein
The confusion caused by wrong names allows the scammer Einstein to emerge from nowhere and decree the simultaneity of time.
This totally flips Nature and imposes that empty space is a material cause for gravity that warps things.
This warping creates absurdities such as:
- gravity not being a force
- centrifugal forces not being real
- a difference between inertial and gravitational mass (i.e. Einstein invents inertial mass for ‘moving’ gravity)
This is even worse that Newton because it makes the 2nd Element dependent on mass (3rd Element) via light (1st Element).
This prevents faster-than-light-travel and levitation with far less energy. These can be used to solve so many problems today that are out of reach just because a single Einstein corrupted Physics, putting it in limbo state for over 100 years.
We explain the scam of Einstein here .
We explain the huge damage that Einstein’s scam has caused here .
We fix this with Cartesian Relationality by restoring the 5 Elements.